| affinal | (adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affine |
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| affine | (adjective) (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations | - |
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| (adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affinal |
| (noun) (anthropology) kin by marriage | - |
| affined | (adjective) closely related | - |
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| affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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| (noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
| (noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
| (noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
| (noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
| (noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
| bluefin | (noun) largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics | Synonyms: bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, Thunnus thynnus |
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| (noun) flesh of very large tuna | Synonyms: bluefin tuna |
| boffin | (noun) (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research | - |
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| bowfin | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, dogfish, grindle |
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| briefing | (noun) detailed instructions, as for a military operation | - |
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| bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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| chafing | (noun) soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction | - |
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| coffin | (noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated | Synonyms: casket |
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| (verb) place into a coffin | - |
| confine | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: constrain, hold, restrain |
| (verb) prevent from leaving or from being removed | - |
| (verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: detain |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: enclose, hold in |
| confined | (adjective) not free to move about | - |
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| (adjective) not invading healthy tissue | - |
| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, imprisoned, jailed |
| confinement | (noun) the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them | - |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: restriction |
| (noun) the state of being confined | - |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| confines | (noun) a bounded scope | - |
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| confining | (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: close |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
| cycloolefin | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloalkene |
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| debriefing | (noun) report of a mission or task | - |
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| definability | (noun) the quality or state of being capable of being defined, limited, or explained. | - |
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| definable | (adjective) capable of being defined, limited, or explained | - |
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| define | (verb) give a definition for the meaning of a word | - |
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| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: determine, fix, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify |
| (verb) determine the nature of | - |
| (verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: delineate |
| defined | (adjective) clearly characterized or delimited | - |
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| (adjective) showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary | Synonyms: outlined |
| defining | (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: shaping |
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| definite | (adjective) precise; explicit and clearly defined | - |
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| (adjective) known for certain | - |
| definitely | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, emphatically, in spades, unquestionably |
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| definiteness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: determinateness |
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| definition | (noun) clarity of outline | - |
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| (noun) a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol | - |
| definitive | (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: determinate |
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| (adjective) clearly defined or formulated | Synonyms: unequivocal |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: authoritative |
| definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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| elfin | (adjective) relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf | - |
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| (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfish, elvish |
| (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elflike |
| (adjective) suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness | Synonyms: fey |
| faultfinder | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: cynic |
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| faultfinding | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: captious |
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| (adjective) tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions | - |
| (noun) persistent petty and unjustified criticism | Synonyms: carping |
| fin | (noun) organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals | - |
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| (noun) a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish | - |
| (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: louver, louvre |
| (noun) a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) | Synonyms: flipper |
| (noun) one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile | Synonyms: tail fin, tailfin |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| (verb) show the fins above the water while swimming | Synonyms: break water |
| (verb) propel oneself through the water in a finning motion | - |
| (verb) equip (a car) with fins | - |
| finable | (adjective) liable to a fine | Synonyms: fineable |
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| finagle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: manage, wangle |
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| finagler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: wangler |
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| final | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: concluding, last, terminal |
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| (adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: last, net |
| (adjective) not to be altered or undone | Synonyms: last |
| (noun) an examination administered at the end of an academic term | Synonyms: final exam, final examination |
| (noun) the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament | - |
| finale | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finis |
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| (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: coda |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| finalisation | (noun) the act of finalizing | Synonyms: finalization |
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| finalise | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalize, nail down, settle |
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| finalist | (noun) a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition | - |
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| finality | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: conclusiveness, decisiveness |
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| finalization | (noun) the act of finalizing | Synonyms: finalisation |
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| finalize | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, nail down, settle |
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| finally | (adverb) as the end result of a succession or process | Synonyms: at last, at long last, in the end, ultimately |
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| (adverb) after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay | Synonyms: eventually |
| (adverb) the item at the end | Synonyms: in conclusion, last, lastly |
| finance | (noun) the commercial activity of providing funds and capital | - |
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| (noun) the management of money and credit and banking and investments | - |
| (noun) the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets | - |
| (verb) obtain or provide money for | - |
| (verb) sell or provide on credit | - |
| finances | (noun) assets in the form of money | Synonyms: cash in hand, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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| financial | (adjective) involving financial matters | Synonyms: fiscal |
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| financially | (adverb) from a financial point of view | - |
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| financier | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: moneyman |
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| (verb) conduct financial operations | - |
| financing | (noun) the act of financing | Synonyms: funding |
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| finback | (noun) large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Balaenoptera physalus, common rorqual, fin whale, finback whale |
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| finch | (noun) any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds | - |
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| find | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: discovery, uncovering |
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| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: breakthrough, discovery |
| (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: get, incur, obtain, receive |
| (verb) accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation | Synonyms: find oneself |
| (verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out |
| (verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: rule |
| (verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: discover |
| (verb) succeed in reaching; arrive at | - |
| (verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: see, witness |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, notice, observe |
| (verb) perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place | - |
| (verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: regain |
| (verb) get something or somebody for a specific purpose | Synonyms: come up, get hold, line up |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, happen |
| (verb) obtain through effort or management | - |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: recover, regain, retrieve |
| finder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: view finder, viewfinder |
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| (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: discoverer, spotter |
| (noun) someone who comes upon something after searching | - |
| finding | (noun) the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | Synonyms: determination |
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| (noun) the decision of a court on issues of fact or law | - |
| (noun) something that is found | - |
| findings | (noun) a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes | - |
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| findom | (noun) pejorative term for when a man gives money to a woman | - |
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| (noun) a fetish where the submissive is forced to give money to a dominant | - |
| fine | (adjective) of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment | - |
| (adjective) minutely precise especially in differences in meaning | - |
| (adjective) free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity | - |
| (adjective) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition | Synonyms: all right, cool, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay |
| (adjective) thin in thickness or diameter | - |
| (noun) money extracted as a penalty | Synonyms: amercement, mulct |
| (adverb) an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence | Synonyms: all right, alright, OK, very well |
| (adverb) in a delicate manner | Synonyms: delicately, exquisitely, finely |
| (verb) impose a fine on | Synonyms: mulct |
| (verb) record a fine as a penalty in a police record | Synonyms: ticket |
| fineable | (adjective) liable to a fine | Synonyms: finable |
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| finedraw | (verb) sew together very finely | - |
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| fineliner | (noun) A felt-tip pen with a thin tip that produces thin lines. | Synonyms: fineliner pen |
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| finely | (adverb) in a delicate manner | Synonyms: delicately, exquisitely, fine |
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| (adverb) in an elegant manner | - |
| (adverb) in tiny pieces | - |
| fineness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: daintiness, delicacy |
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| (noun) the property of being very narrow or thin | Synonyms: thinness |
| (noun) having a very fine texture | Synonyms: powderiness |
| (noun) the quality of being very good indeed | Synonyms: choiceness |
| finer | (adjective) (comparative of `fine') greater in quality or excellence | - |
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| finery | (noun) elaborate or showy attire and accessories | - |
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| finespun | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: hairsplitting |
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| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: delicate |
| finesse | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, diplomacy, discreetness |
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| finger | (noun) one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb | - |
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| (noun) any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb) | - |
| (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth |
| (verb) indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments | - |
| (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: thumb |
| (verb) search for on the computer | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: feel |
| fingerboard | (noun) a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: clavier, piano keyboard |
| (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerpost |
| fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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| fingered | (adjective) having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in combination | - |
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| fingerflower | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerroot |
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| fingering | (noun) touching something with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument | - |
| fingerless | (adjective) not having or having lost fingers | - |
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| fingerlike | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: digitate |
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| fingerling | (noun) a young or small fish | - |
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| fingermark | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingerprint |
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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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| fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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| fingerpost | (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerboard |
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| fingerprint | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingermark |
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| (noun) a generic term for any identifying characteristic | - |
| (noun) a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations | - |
| (verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
| fingerprinting | (noun) the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification | - |
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| fingerroot | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerflower |
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| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| fingerstall | (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: cot |
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| fingertip | (noun) the end (tip) of a finger | - |
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| finial | (noun) an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis | - |
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| finical | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finicky, fussy, particular, picky |
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| finicky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, fussy, particular, picky |
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| finis | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finale |
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| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finish, last, stopping point |
| finish | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finishing |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finishing |
| (noun) (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed) | - |
| (noun) designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race) | - |
| (noun) the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict) | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, ending |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, goal |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, polish, refinement |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point |
| (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
| (verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
| (verb) provide with a finish | - |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
| finished | (adjective) ended or brought to an end | - |
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| (adjective) (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state | - |
| (adjective) brought to ruin | Synonyms: ruined |
| (adjective) having a surface coating or finish applied | - |
| (adjective) (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected | - |
| finisher | (noun) an animal that wins in a contest of speed | - |
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| (noun) a race car that finishes a race | - |
| (noun) a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process | - |
| (noun) a painter who applies a finishing coat | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: closer |
| (noun) a racing driver who finishes a race | - |
| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |